Most Recent IAPP CIPT Exam Questions & Answers

Option A (Quality and benefit): While quality and benefit are important, they do not capture the core focus of VSD, which is more concerned with ethical considerations rather than purely functional or performance-based attributes.

Option B (Ethics and morality): VSD primarily focuses on incorporating ethical and moral values into technology design. This involves considering the impacts on human values such as privacy, autonomy, and fairness.

Option C (Principles and standards): While principles and standards are relevant, they do not specifically encapsulate the ethical dimension that VSD emphasizes.

Option D (Privacy and human rights): While privacy and human rights are important aspects of VSD, the approach is broader, encompassing various ethical and moral values beyond just privacy and human rights.

Value Sensitive Design literature by Batya Friedman and Peter Kahn.

Studies on integrating ethical considerations into design processes (e.g., 'Value Sensitive Design: Theory and Methods' by Friedman, Kahn, and Borning).

Conclusion: Value Sensitive Design (VSD) focuses on ethics and morality (Option B), ensuring that technology development incorporates ethical considerations and respects human values.

For protecting patient credit card information in the records system, symmetric encryption is the most appropriate cryptographic standard. Here's why:

Efficiency: Symmetric encryption algorithms are typically faster and require less computational power than asymmetric algorithms, making them suitable for encrypting large amounts of data, such as patient credit card information.

Security: Symmetric encryption, when using strong algorithms (like AES - Advanced Encryption Standard), provides a high level of security. It ensures that data remains confidential as long as the encryption key is securely managed.

Use Case: Credit card information typically needs to be encrypted and decrypted frequently and quickly, which is a strength of symmetric encryption.

While asymmetric encryption is used for secure key exchange and digital signatures, it is less efficient for encrypting large data sets. Hashing and obfuscation do not provide the required reversible encryption suitable for protecting credit card data. Reference: IAPP Certification Textbooks, Section on Cryptographic Standards and Data Protection Techniques.

To effectively facilitate the deletion of every instance of data associated with a deleted user account from all data stores, the most reliable approach is to build a standardized and documented retention program for user data deletion. This program ensures a systematic process for identifying and removing user data across all data stores in the organization, ensuring compliance with data protection principles. By having a documented policy, the organization can maintain consistency and accountability in data deletion processes. This method is recommended by data privacy standards and is elaborated in IAPP's Information Privacy Technologist resources.

Browser fingerprinting compromises privacy by differentiating users based upon parameters such as browser settings, installed fonts, screen resolution, and other device-specific information. This technique allows websites to uniquely identify and track users without their explicit consent, which can lead to privacy violations as it often occurs without user awareness or control. (Reference: IAPP CIPT Study Guide, Chapter on Web Privacy and Tracking Technologies)

A 'smart' device is characterized by its ability to leverage internet connectivity to enhance its functionality. Here's why option D is correct:

Internet Connectivity: Smart devices are connected to the internet, allowing them to access and utilize information from various online sources to improve performance and functionality.

Enhanced Capabilities: This connectivity enables features such as real-time updates, remote control, data sharing, and interaction with other smart devices, distinguishing them from traditional devices.

User Interaction: While being programmable by users without specialized training (B) is a feature of some smart devices, it is not the defining characteristic.

Functionality: Performing multiple data functions simultaneously (A) and reapplying access controls (C) are capabilities that can be found in various devices, not exclusive to smart devices.

Examples: Examples include smart home devices like thermostats that adjust settings based on weather forecasts accessed from the internet or smart assistants that provide answers by searching online databases.